There may be some situations in which you want to trace the origins of an email you received. In most cases, the reason is to track down a spammer in order to report him/her to the proper authorities. Right now I am in the middle of playing along with an amateur scammer [...] Read more »
Archive for ‘email’
How to get rid of spam
MondaySep 7,2009
I received this question from my friend Paul recently: Scott, My Spam Filter subscription for my earthlink.net email address and Outlook Express recently expired. Spam Filters could be a possible topic for your Blog and it would give me your present recommendation for a good spam filter. I would prefer an inexpensive, [...] Read more »
Fixing Outlook for Gmail
MondayJun 8,2009
Recently I helped out one of my clients with an Outlook problem. Bob uses Microsoft Outlook to read email from his Gmail account (I use the same procedure myself). Suddenly, Bob found that he was able to receive email in Outlook, but he could not longer send email. He would get [...] Read more »
Another rant about your email account
WednesdayFeb 18,2009
This is a topic about which I have written before. But it bears repeating. Your internet provider sells you a service – connecting you to the internet. Along with that service comes other things. One of those things is an email account. You should not use this email account. I repeat: don’t use the [...] Read more »
Choose a theme for your Gmail account
MondayNov 24,2008
As you probably already know, I use Gmail as my email service exclusively. I have several different Gmail accounts that I use for different purposes. There are lots of advantages to the Gmail service, compared to other services such as Hotmail or Yahoo. Gmail just got better! Now, if you go to [...] Read more »
Watch out for phishing email scams
WednesdayOct 1,2008
One of the most common scams on the internet now is phishing. Phishing is the act of trying to obtain private information (such a password, credit card number, date of birth, social security number) while pretending to be a reputable entity. This is often seen now in spam emails that come in, supposedly [...] Read more »
Snooze control for your email
FridaySep 12,2008
Have you ever received an email and thought, “Wow, I don’t really want to deal with that now. I wish that email would just show up tomorrow instead.” Sure, you could just leave it in your inbox, but by the time you want to process it, it might be higher up in [...] Read more »
Spamarrest nonsense
WednesdaySep 3,2008
Most computer users will agree – we all hate spam. It’s the scourge of the internet. For an individual, it’s an annoyance. For a business, it is an expense. Some businesses have gone to great measures to prevent spam – and some have gone too far. I ran into [...] Read more »
PeoplePC…still figuring out this “email” thing
WednesdayAug 20,2008
I recently got an email from someone who apparently had just changed their internet provider to PeoplePC. As an aside, if this person had asked my advice (which he/she didn’t), I would have advised them to choose a different service. My observations from a few customers that use PeoplePC have led me [...] Read more »
Yahoo email – important tip for forwarding
FridayMay 16,2008
Okay, you have heard me rant about Yahoo, and also about forwarding emails. I’m not going to beat those dead horses again. Anyone that keeps using Yahoo, and keeps forwarding all those emails, is going to do it regardless of what I say anyway. What I want to mention today is that [...] Read more »
